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Judge acquits man of sex assault charge because he was high on mushrooms

A man in British Columbia who admitted to an attempted rape was recently acquitted after a judge found he was too intoxicated on psilocybin mushrooms to be held criminally responsible.

Alex Zoltan
Jun 22, 2025
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A man in British Columbia who admitted to an attempted rape was recently acquitted after a judge found he was too intoxicated on psilocybin mushrooms to be held criminally responsible—with the judge calling the case “unusual.”

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